Keith and Marie Zawistowski’s design/build LAB at Virginia Tech promotes and architecture of connectivity. Their Clifton Forge Amphitheater project seeks to give a forum to a community who is struggling to embrace tourism as their… Continue reading
Heather Grutzius and John White’s studio, 510 Spaces, excel in balancing a mixture of scales within their work. They know when to wear their black architect duds, their canvas work garb, and when… Continue reading
Virginia Tech design/build LAB ‘s Keith and Marie Zawistowski work as instructors and architects reaches past the shiny detail and the glossy image. They thrive in calloused-hand projects, their joints and muscles aching at the end of the… Continue reading
Its owner never picked up Tom Rodriguez’s first commissioned guitar. So others picked it up and played it, and ordered their own when Tom wouldn’t sell the original. The rest is a sweet sounding… Continue reading
Members of the Richmond Cycling Corps elite hammer to the trailhead then hop off road on their cyclocross bikes. No afternoon joy ride, these kids bust it with hill repeats, time trills,… Continue reading
Prior to spreading her design wings with Ben, Gwen Murray worked with the now historic Kytin Design and Fabrication in San Francisco. Some of their work can be seen here, here, and… Continue reading
John Quale’s ecoMOD team designed & built this home in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity not far from their previous builds in Charlottesville. Built between 2008 and 2010, the THRU house comes the… Continue reading
One of Shaun Irving’s big ideas: find a box truck + drill hole + capture large format black and white images of his travels = Cameratruck. His work harkens historic images, vagabond high… Continue reading
Gwen and Ben Murray’s re:4m design build, featured in R Home Magazine’s January/February 2013 edition, presents environmentally and internationally-Richmond informed projects, balanced by a few good British pints. Educated at VMI, Virginia… Continue reading
Craig Dodson leads Richmond Cycling Corps – a non-profit whose goal is to get youth out of public housing projects. Lofty. How? The bicycle. Think broadly, think art, think mechanics, think long rides… Continue reading
What are they doing in there? John Quale heads UVA’s ecoMOD and ecoREMOD initiatives. Maybe you’ve swung a hammer with them. If not, think economy, ecology, modular, modern, regenerate, reframe. John recently published… Continue reading
Tom Rodriguez of Rodriguez Guitars quietly employs materials formula one racers flaunt. His interest in classical and Flamenco guitars manifests itself in a limtied number of finely detailed and crafted built works each… Continue reading
Hubba hubba. See more at Beer + Design 3: Get Outta Here. February 6th, hey that’s today! 5:30pm, Storefront for Community Design – 205 E. Broad Street.
Wolf Ackerman. In their own words: Our approach to design is shaped by our belief that architecture celebrates function and has the power to elevate the spirit. Prepare yourself for a tectonic gift when… Continue reading
Pete O’Shea + Siteworks projects range from yards to campuses. Chances are, you’ve found one of their spaces in your Central Virginia travels and took note. We look forward to learning more… Continue reading
A shirtless fellow carrying his parcles up Hull Street, eagerly eyeing a pizza joint? A member of the 2011 Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects Emerging Leaders in Architecture class, Thom White… Continue reading
How often have you read a quote from a non-Frank Lloyd Wright architect on an artist/musician’s website? How about the great land/arch/time imaginings of Enric Miralles? Nelly Kate brings cross-genre creativity to… Continue reading
